FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The first cruise ship is preparing to leave a U.S. port since the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a 15-month standstill. Celebrity Edge will depart Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Saturday evening with the number of…
SANT ESTEVE SESROVIRES, Spain (AP) — The widow of John McAfee, the British-American tycoon who died in a Spanish prison this week while awaiting extradition to the United States, has demanded a “thorough investigation” of his death saying her husband…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind law that requires businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let transgender people use multiperson public bathrooms or similar facilities of…
MADRID (AP) — John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Hours earlier, a Spanish court issued a…
MERCER, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a Tennessee businessman died when his single-engine plane crashed about 10 miles from an airport. Officials say the plane went down Monday in Mercer, about 75 miles northeast of Memphis. The Madison County fire…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Department of Correction is now participating in a service that provides the public with criminal case information and custody status of inmates. The service is called Victim Information and Notification Everyday, or VINE. It…
ATLANTA (AP) — Tropical Depression Claudette has claimed 12 lives in Alabama as the storm swept across the southeastern U.S., causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Ten people, including nine children, were killed in a…
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A plane with 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Taiwan from the U.S. in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning. The China Airlines cargo flight touched down late…
CORNING, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a church bus collided Saturday with another vehicle on a northeastern Arkansas highway, sending least 11 people to the hospital. Clay County Sheriff Terry Miller said he believes there were 11 people aboard the…
SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a driver in a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders. Police say officers chased the driver Saturday and shot him outside a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Justice Department says a former Tennessee doctor who pleaded guilty to unlawfully distributing opioids has been sentenced to three years in prison. The federal agency said in a statement that 66-year-old Darrel R. Rinehart of…
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing’s newest version of the 737 Max jetliner has taken flight. A Boeing 737 Max 10 completed a test flight of about 2 1/2 hours on Friday over Washington state. The Max 10 can hold up to…
(AP-US) -- A string of notable American women will appear on the U.S. quarter under a four-year program that begins in 2022. The U.S. Mint says its American Women Quarters Program will celebrate women’s accomplishments and contributions to U.S. history.…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says that Champ, the older of the family's two dogs, has died “peacefully at home.” The German shepherd was 13. The president and first lady Jill Biden got Champ from a breeder after…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced that Helen of Troy Ltd. will establish a new distribution operation in Fayette County, creating 350 jobs. Lee made the announcement Thursday with Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 63-year-old southwest Missouri man has admitted that he threatened congressmen from Missouri and Tennessee. Federal prosecutors say Kenneth Hubert of Marionville, Missouri, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of threatening to assault a U.S.…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a 16-year-old girl was attacked by a bear Friday in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Park Service officials say the girl's family managed to scare the bear away from the area after the…
Videos released under court order provide a chilling new look at the chaos at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, including body camera footage that shows a man charging at a police officer with a flagpole. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="d441efdaa94864ed8a47fedb953253ed5d8cf8e9" vtitle="Fierce…
Experts say mixing and matching different two-dose COVID-19 vaccines is likely safe and effective, but data still needs to be collected to be sure. COVID-19 shots are all designed to stimulate your immune system to produce virus-fighting antibodies, though the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed legislation Thursday establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, saying he believes it will go down as one of the greatest honors he has as president. Biden signed…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Federal authorities say a prison inmate who had escaped from a minimum security facility in Tennessee has been captured. Tyreece Miller is the U.S. Marshal for West Tennessee. He said Cecil Corey Haggins was found Wednesday at…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the nation. The House passed a bill Wednesday that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a federal holiday. The House voted…
The U.S. government has put an end to two Trump administration policies that made it harder for immigrants fleeing violence to qualify for asylum. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday issued new instructions to immigration judges to stop following the…
BARTLETT, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities in Tennessee say seven family members have been charged with murder in the starvation death of a 14-year-old boy. Prosecutors say a mother and six relatives who lived together in a community home arrangement in…
UPDATE: Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the tone of the talks with U.S. President Joe Biden as “constructive” and said there was no hostility during the talks.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday and is expected to easily…
A New York judge on Tuesday approved disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to California, where he faces additional sexual assault charges. The decision ended a legal fight prolonged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the defense’s concerns about Weinstein’s failing health…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a federal inmate, Cecil Corey Haggins, who was imprisoned on drug charges has escaped from a minimum security facility in Tennessee. The Bureau of Prisons says the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and other…
MADRID (AP) - Detained antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has testified in a Spanish court as part of his fight against extradition to the United States. He is wanted by Tennessee on tax-related criminal charges that carry prison sentences of…
The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies. The 109-year-old organization says the coronavirus shut down in-person sales at cookie booths. The Girl Scouts usually make around $800 million each year selling 200…
RIPLEY, Tenn. (AP) — A convicted felon has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in a deal with prosecutors in the rape and killing of a Tennessee prison administrator during a 2019 escape. Curtis Ray Watson pleaded no…
(CNN Newsource) -- CNN's Chris Cuomo speaks to 8-year-old Bryson Kliemann, who sold his Pokémon cards to help pay for his sick dog's veterinarian bill.
(AP) WINDSOR, England -- U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are greeting the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. The Bidens emerged from a Land Rover on Sunday to meet the awaiting queen, who stood on…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The teenager who pulled out her cellphone and recorded the police restraint and death of George Floyd has been awarded a special citation by the Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer Prizes said Friday that Darnella Frazier courageously recorded…
(AP) -- President Joe Biden says on the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that he will sign a bill naming the site as a national memorial. The deadliest attack on the LGBTQ…
CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury has convicted a Tennessee man of first-degree murder in the perpetration of a felony in the death of his 5-year-old son, whose body remains missing years later. Joe Clyde Daniels was reported missing April…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a Tennessee man is charged with first-degree murder for the beating death of his 2-year-old son. Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich announced the grand jury indictment Friday against 36-year-old Antonio First from…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say someone opened fire in a busy entertainment district in downtown Austin, wounding 13 people before getting away. The city's interim police chief, Joseph Chacon, said at news conference that investigators are looking into what…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers have removed the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Tennessee park, marking another step in the process of moving their bodies out of Memphis and to a museum hundreds…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The 49 victims who were massacred at a gay nightclub shooting in Florida are being honored this week with a community run, a museum exhibit, a mass yoga session, a gay chorus performance and a street…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A longtime Tennessee judge who drew backlash from Republican lawmakers for ordering an expansion of absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic won’t seek reelection next year. This week, Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle informed members…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is eyeing an infrastructure deal with $579 billion in new spending as part of a $1 trillion total package. That's according to people briefed on the plan. Negotiators are trying to strike…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Emergency officials in north Mississippi told residents to evacuate several homes Wednesday after heavy rain created concern about a dam on a small lake. Crews from the Lafayette County Fire Department were pumping water out of…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit. Calgary-based…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have announced that a former Tennessee governor’s administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state’s largest political scandal. Investigators in Hamilton County have…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The skeletons of two related Viking-era men are set to be reunited for an exhibition opening in Copenhagen this month. Scientists established a genetic link between…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China. A new…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A judge has reset a hearing to address a request by the ex-wife of slain NBA player Lorenzen Wright to throw out her guilty plea in his 2010 killing in Memphis. Sherra Wright filed a petition…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation aiming to boost semiconductor production in the U.S. The bill is a bid to protect economic and national security in the face of growing international competition, most notably from China. Lawmakers…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s annual free fishing day is Saturday. Each year, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency offers one day when anglers can fish without a paid license in the state’s public waters, agency-owned and -operated lakes and state…
